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Annual awards night of Salthill Devon FC at the Ardilaun Hotel, Salthill. What a great crowd. Congratulations to all the winners and to the great people who work so hard to make this club a vital cog in the community in Salthill.
Performance of Be Still My Soul by Galway University Hospital Choir at the Circle Of Life Commemorative Garden in Salthill, Galway on Sunday, May 24th, 2015.
Pictured at the Circle Of Life Commemorative Garden in Salthill, Galway on Sunday May 24th, 2015. Left to right: Martina Goggin (founder), Liz McDonald, Jane Hughes, Una McDonald, Dympna McAna and Marie Cadden.
A Jez Scoolgirls@ Four on the Corrib at The Slip in Dangan yesterday.
A cruise liner leaving Galway Bay at 5.30 today. The ship facing it is a factory ship and it looks tiny in comparison.
Takeoff achieved on the Corrib at Menlo Castle yesterday
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Dear Medium,
I take it that you are in your formative stages, prior to conquering the world, beating the shit out of Facebook, out-linking Linkedin etc. This means that you haven’t made important decisions about what you want to be in...
In Ireland, the system of Direct Provision forces asylum-seekers to live in one room, with daily meals and a weekly allowance of €19. Entire families have been living in one room under this system for as long as eight years. Asylum-seekers are not allowed to work under Direct Provision and there is little opportunity for children to go to third-level education. I spoke with five children living under Direct Provision in Galway. Their parents must be proud of them.
Galway Music Legend and 365-swimmer Miki Belton, an old friend, pictured after a dip in Blackrock recently.
We recently told the story of a business pitch competition jointly run by the GMIT and the New Frontiers Programme run by Enterprise Ireland. Tony O'Kelly, Programme Manager, brought in the Dragons Den pitch coach, Catherine Moonan to help prepare the participating companies for the big pitch. Here is a short video of Catherine at work with the participating companies.
Marc Sports, headed by Mark Ganly and his wife Sandra are best-known for their hurling helmets. They plan to manufacture a revolutionary rugby scrumcap which will help reduce the incidence of concussion in rugby. They recently won the prestigious New Frontiers/Gmit Business Award. Here is a short video we put together for Mark.
More cars submerged at the rear of Seapoint on the Prom in Salthill, Galway. The people who parked these cars must be visitors or have been living on a desert island for the past five days. Hard to believe people are still parking along the Prom.
Man and boy, I have walked the Prom for 50 years and have never seen scenes like these before.
What's the quack with the Mexican duck? It's called a Muscovy duck. Mary Joyce-Glynn of the Swan Sanctuary explains.
I was driving by Blackrock on the morning after the big storm which saw Toft Park and the Prom flooded and I saw what looked like decorations on the railings at the diving tower. I had the video gear in the car soo...Then these people began swimming. I think they are wonderful, inspiring even.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
I'm not David Ogilvy, but this seven minutes of scratchy old video recorded by him in India over 40 years ago is well worth watching. If you have skin in the game of publishing, if you rely on advertising online or offline, if you blog, write, tell stories or produce video, photos or websites, watch this. We can all learn from it. Now I will posit you this: Advertising, as we know it, is dead. R.I.P. Maybe not today, maybe now tomorrow but soon and for the rest of most of our lives. The question for many of you is, if that's true, where's the revenue going to come from? Let's look first at the evidence. Newspaper circulation and advertising is in freefall, magazines similarly. TV viewing and advertising is in freefall. More teenagers in the USA today spend more time watching video on their mobile devices than they do watching linear TV. The Skybox allows us to skip through the ads anyway. The web gurus tell us the banner ad is dead. The video experts tell us the mid-roll ad (the one in middle) and the post-roll ad (the one at the end) are dead. That leaves only the pre-roll and Youtube allows you to skip that. Media owners are scrambling to get online at any cost. They are making the same historic mistakes. They seek to replicate online what they have done offline. Have they learned anything? In my next post I will talk about where the revenue MIGHT come from and how publishers need to get real about which business model will endure online.
